Oil Spill

[MMI]

I have to confirm that Companies House shows that BP PLC really is a British company, and as a British company whose greatest interest seems to lie in the USA, I really do think that it should try a little harder to clean up the mess, and if it can't do it by itself, to at least try to enlist American co-operation and help ... or wherever that help can be found ... Russia or China if necessary. I'm glad they've suspended dividends ... why the hell did it take so long ... why did Obama have to insist? I'm glad they've set aside a reserve to pay for the clean-up (is it a cash reserve, or just an accounting transaction?). Again, why did it take so long? If BP had taken the initiative, maybe America would cut the company a little more slack. As far as I can see, BP has brought it all on itself.

Having said that, I hear America's insistence that BP's to blame, so it must pay every last cent it takes to restore the environment, the economy and people's livlihoods, and I wonder what pressure is being put on the Dow Corporation - a US company - to stop the pollution, and to clean up the environment in Bhopal, and to restore people's livlihoods there, more than 25 years after the disaster caused by their Union Carbide subsidiary.

[leo9]

I have to confirm that Companies House shows that BP PLC really is a British company

I stand corrected, though in the world of multinational companies that's a pretty technical point: I'm sure they would be registered in the Cayman Islands if it suited them better.

Having said that, I hear America's insistence that BP's to blame, so it must pay every last cent it takes to restore the environment, the economy and people's livlihoods, and I wonder what pressure is being put on the Dow Corporation - a US company - to stop the pollution, and to clean up the environment in Bhopal, and to restore people's livlihoods there, more than 25 years after the disaster caused by their Union Carbide subsidiary.

<with great effort suppresses bitterly cynical and grossly anti-American comment>

What indeed.

[DuncanONeil]

What about all the help that has been offered and declined by the ADMINISTRATION of the US itself?

I have to confirm that Companies House shows that BP PLC really is a British company, and as a British company whose greatest interest seems to lie in the USA, I really do think that it should try a little harder to clean up the mess, and if it can't do it by itself, to at least try to enlist American co-operation and help ... or wherever that help can be found ... Russia or China if necessary. I'm glad they've suspended dividends ... why the hell did it take so long ... why did Obama have to insist? I'm glad they've set aside a reserve to pay for the clean-up (is it a cash reserve, or just an accounting transaction?). Again, why did it take so long? If BP had taken the initiative, maybe America would cut the company a little more slack. As far as I can see, BP has brought it all on itself.

Having said that, I hear America's insistence that BP's to blame, so it must pay every last cent it takes to restore the environment, the economy and people's livlihoods, and I wonder what pressure is being put on the Dow Corporation - a US company - to stop the pollution, and to clean up the environment in Bhopal, and to restore people's livlihoods there, more than 25 years after the disaster caused by their Union Carbide subsidiary.